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Why the Old Songs are Important

Delving into the history of ballads and old folk songs from Scotland to Argentina

Feb 24

Why the Old Songs are Important

Feb 24

Taking Action! Taking Risks.

Learning from the dance of the Orb Weaver Spider

Jan 28

Taking Action! Taking Risks.

Jan 28

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Ten Days of Silence and Twelve Hours of Meditation

Sweating out delusions and seeing life as it is

Dec 9, 2024

Ten Days of Silence and Twelve Hours of Meditation

Dec 9, 2024

Poetry as Devotion: Can writing connect us back to the living, breathing body?

“We live in a time of spin. Everyone is inventing stories. How do we as writers keep authenticity when writing our own stories?”

Nov 8, 2024

Poetry as Devotion: Can writing connect us back to the living, breathing body?

Nov 8, 2024

The Spectres Still Haunting Europe

Confronting the Shadow V: Why do we still love ghost stories? Why are some monsters more popular than others?

Aug 27, 2024

The Spectres Still Haunting Europe

Aug 27, 2024

Shiva swallowed poison to save the world. Oppenheimer ejected poison to save the world.

Confronting the Shadow: IV of the series

Jun 25, 2024

Shiva swallowed poison to save the world. Oppenheimer ejected poison to save the world.

Jun 25, 2024

Does Evil Exist?

And if so, how do we recognise it?

May 19, 2024

Does Evil Exist?

May 19, 2024

Confronting the Shadow II

Why the West doesn’t want to meet its shadow self

May 7, 2024

Confronting the Shadow II

May 7, 2024

Tears and Collective Weeping

Should collective weeping be popularised again?

Apr 17, 2024

Tears and Collective Weeping

Apr 17, 2024

Confronting the “Shadow Self”

An introduction to a series of essays exploring shadow through the “East/ West dichotomy”; colonialism; mythology; monsters; Oppenheimer…

Feb 28, 2024

Wikimedia Commons: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, illustration by William Blake, 1826

Feb 28, 2024

Time versus Labour: the Perpetual Struggle

Time, I’m leaving you

Aug 17, 2023

A black and white image of a silent movie. A man with specs and a flat, straw hat hangs off the hand of a clock on the side of a tall building in the city.

Aug 17, 2023

Embracing Superficiality

Is authenticity losing its essence?

Jul 18, 2023

Embracing Superficiality

Jul 18, 2023

The Art of Finishing

Why are we all so bad at endings?

Jul 2, 2023

A darkly-coloured print of two figures, a woman with red hair and dark orb-like eyes, turned towards a man with short dark hair and dark-orb eyes. Up ahead of them is a long winding dark path surrounded by a grey shiny substance that looks like the sea. And in the distance, a large, dark, foreboding looking mountain looms.

Jul 2, 2023

Playing the Fool in my mid 30s

Exploring the Fool archetype from Shakespeare to clown phobias

May 16, 2023

A montage of fools, jesters and jokers from different card decks.

May 16, 2023

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The History of the Feminised Voice

Noise Vs Silence Part II: looking at the feminised voice in Irish & Ancient Greek mythology, lamenting rituals, hermit nuns & PJ Harvey

Dec 5, 2023

The History of the Feminised Voice

Dec 5, 2023

Arriving on the Edges

A story I wrote about arriving in Jerez de la Frontera, southern Spain, a year before the pandemic, and in its aftermath, asJerez began to…

Dec 6, 2022

The back of the flamenco shoes of a woman, whose white ankles you can see. The heels are black leather and the heels wooden with red roses and spiky leaves peeping out the sides.

Dec 6, 2022

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Musicians Resurrecting Silent Cinema in Andalusia: Cinetones

A video interview with the creators of Cinetones, Elena Jiménez and Manuel Méijome, joined by collaborator, drummer Ismael Colón Garrido.

Nov 1, 2022

Musicians Resurrecting Silent Cinema in Andalusia: Cinetones

Nov 1, 2022

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Noise Versus Silence: Part one

Rebecca W Morris writes about noise pollution and noise-resistance campaigns through history

Jun 6, 2022

Large spiky 3-D metal points lined up next to each other and facing towards the viewer. It appears to be abstract shapes but is an image of the walls of an anechoic chamber.

Jun 6, 2022

Learning From East Asia: Masks and Mindfulness

Do you remember learning about the Spanish flu of 1918? It was described by doctors as the “greatest medical holocaust in history”. In…

May 19, 2022

Learning From East Asia: Masks and Mindfulness

May 19, 2022

Why Kill a Fever?

I’ve been a bit feverish recently.

May 2, 2022

Why Kill a Fever?

May 2, 2022

Rebecca W Morris

Rebecca W Morris

Art, activism, sound and the body. Editor and Contributor to Medium publication, Those Who Were Dancing.

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